CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonbeautifulsoup
lucas
lucas

Reputation: 67

depth property for Tag, NavigableString for BeautifulSoup (bs4)

With BeautifulSoup, is there a property for each Tag or NavigableString where we can get the depth or level of the Tag, for instance? like HTML would be level 0 and head and body would be 1, and the title or first div would be 2, and so forth. would really help ground the computations if that were a property. and the depth property would also be automatically updated if the tree were modified, like by wrap or unwrap, etc.

if the depth property is there and I'm not aware of it, please share. if not, please add this property to a future version.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1102

Answers (1)

Rusty Robot
Rusty Robot

Reputation: 1845

As far as I know BeautifulSoup does not have a depth count, or a way to pull out all elements of that depth. If you want to make a request for future versions, you can visit the dicussion group (Which it looks like you have already done.)

Better yet, you can contribute to the source code, or implement your own function to calculate the depth. I recommend starting with this post that implements a count for the depth.

Upvotes: 2

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